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A new Kickstarter project is aiming to redefine how you shoot video with your iPhone. The Galileo is an iOS-controlled robotic iPhone platform that lets you manipulate the angle your iPhone from another iOS device, giving you the ability to adjust your iPhone to almost any angle you could possibly want. For instance, if you were video chatting with a child who moved...

Oxford University UK has recently announced the launch of a new Cyber Security Centre. The initiative is a response to the growing threat of cyber-terrorism and online crime, aiming to work on strengthening security measures, and helping to protect sensitive business and government data from the prying tentacles of hackers. A university spokesperson said: “The...

The Black British Filmmaker’s Guide to Success addresses the need for an up-to-date, practical resource that caters specifically for black content work. It has been written as a guide for black British filmmakers. The guide also bears relevance to the wider international community of black filmmakers and filmmakers of other backgrounds making black content, or...

A new entry has been registered in the Global Download Centre of the Samsung UK support section as the GT-I9308, which comes after the yet to be released GT-I9300 and the GT-I9250M which is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Surprisingly the GT-I9300 and the GT-I9308 entries – which could well be the names of the Samsung Galaxy S3 – are not present in the GDC...

I have always said it that when it comes to communication or any telecom related business, there’s so much profit to be made in Nigeria, This was confirmed when NCC, the Nigerian Communications Commissions announced that subscribers to telecommunications networks in Nigeria spoke for 41.23 billion minutes on the telephone in one year, statistics on traffic obtained...

DETERMINED to encourage educational standards among the physically challenged virtually impaired in the 72 universities and tertiary institutions in the country, MTN Nigeria under its MTN Foundation (MTNF) has awarded 2,559 students scholarship totalling about N510 million in the last three years. The Chairman of the foundation, Mr Hamzat Ahmadu, stated this recently...

The Federal Government has pledged to share data generated by the three earth observation satellites it has in the orbit with other African countries. Director-General of the National Space for Research and Development Agency, Dr. Seidu Mohammed, made the pledge at the 5th meeting of the Governing Board of African Regional Centre for Space and Science Technology Education...

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. ’Dibu Ojerinde, on Friday said only three out of the 1.5 million candidates who sat for the 2012 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations scored 300 marks and above. Ojerinde said this while announcing the release of the results of the examination, which took place last Saturday. He explained...

A great smartphone at a smashingly good price Until the iPhone 5 is launched, the HTC One X is likely to be the most potent rival to the Samsung Galaxy S3. The device was launched together with two other HTC smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. It can be preordered from BuyMobilesPhones for as little as £472 on O2 with a 21 per cent...

In 2006 six French citizens landed in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport aboard a private jet from Paris on a business mission – to buy Telkom Kenya. Now it is five years since the Frenchmen landed in town on a rescue mission but the company has so far survived largely on taxpayers’ money. Top Government officials spent more than Sh 90 billion of taxpayer’s...